Each week we will meet with business leaders and entrepreneurs, all thriving in different areas of expertise. Marketing, management, HR, finance, health,…You name it! Our guests will share their success stories through meaningful advice and funny anecdotes, accompanied by useful life hacks and tricks of the trade. The conversations are educational, insightful and full of inspirational quotes, dedicated to help you determine your career path, build your brand and improve your business.

Did you know that people who have a fear of public speaking make 10% less than those who do not?

Welcome to another episode of the Business, Life, and Coffee Podcast! This week, we’re exploring all about public speaking. We’re going to go over why are public speakers so valuable and dive right into how you can improve your public speaking skills, while also learning to overcome your fears of speaking in front of a crowd. Whether you’re making an office presentation, leading a discussion group or if you’re holding a TED Talk, this podcast will definitely help you prepare a memorable speech that will engage your audience in a meaningful way.

Do you remember that we’re going to be launching a Monday Night Mastermind soon? We're going to have a lot of fun, once a week, talking for a full hour about topics such as leadership, accountability, goal setting… even producing your very own podcast! So be sure to check it out and sign up by clicking on the links below.

Welcome to another episode of the Business, Life, and Coffe Podcast! Big announcements this week. For starters, we’re going to be shifting towards an awesome new format! We’re still going to have amazing guests from time to time, but from now on, we’re going to focus on deep, personal, 1-on-1 sessions about some of the most relevant topics important for achieving success in today’s business and life! So sit back, grab your favorite cup of coffee because for the next 20 minutes you’re going to hear all about the top 3 most important traits for future business leaders!

The business world is forever changing and our realizations need to change as well so that we could stay in touch and maintain our relevance. We will take a look into what’s to come and try to predict the best ways for preparing ourselves for the unpredictabilities of tomorrow. Whether you’re a small business owner, corporate executive or a professional looking to take more responsibility, this is the podcast for you!

We’re also going to be launching a Monday Night Mastermind! We're going to have leadership discussions, accountability discussions…. We're going to goal set and do a lot of networking because you're going to be hearing from and speaking to other super dope entrepreneurs, business leaders, young professionals!

It's going to be a great mix of people and you don't want to miss out!

Today we are joined by Esther Weinberg, executive coach and the founder of the MindLight Group, LLC. Her focus is on helping executive leadership teams to find, implement and mentor dignity, leadership and personal power in the workplace. With over 20 years of experience, Esther has developed a unique training and mentorship ability that helps executives deal with current challenges today’s companies are faced with. Her mission is to bring back dignity and mentorship into the workplace.

Today we’re joined by Jack McGuinness, a leadership coach and co-founder of Relationship Impact, a consulting firm focused on helping great leaders build great leadership teams. Jack started his career serving as an airborne ranger infantry officer in the US Army’s prestigious 10th Mountain Division. Over the years, he has accumulated more than 25 years of experience in organizational effectiveness, organizational development, team effectiveness, executive coaching, and leadership development. Jack serves as a Senior Professional Instructor at the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business where he teaches courses on strategic management and human capital, and he is also a contributing writer for the Chief Executive Magazine.

Today we’re joined by Jack Gibson, a serial entrepreneur and founder of two multi-million dollar companies. He started his first company at the age of 21 based on coaching people about effective nutrition and fitness strategies. He ended up running a successful multi-million dollar company before he was old enough to rent a car. After being involved in the real estate business for some time, Jack co-founded the High Return Real Estate program, which has a mission to provide an elegant, straightforward way to accelerate real wealth with real property.

Our topics include:

The difficulties of time management for serial entrepreneurs.

What has Jack found most helpful in terms of developing and running two multi-million dollar companies?

For this week’s episode, we went to Podcast Center LA, and our guest is none other than Joey Price! He is the founder and CEO of Jumpstart: HR, but you also know him as the creator and host of the Business, Life and Coffee Podcast. Yes, this week we’re turning the tables on Joey and our interviewer for the show is Greg Davenport, an up and coming graphic designer who is currently doing the Design a Day challenge.Our topics include:

What is the Design a Day challenge and how does it help graphic designers improve their skills?

Three things to look out for when building a brand online.

How do you build a team that will help you with your personal brand?

Why and how should you identify the people to look up to in your line of work?

This week we met with Michael Redbord, who is the general manager of the Service Hub at Hubspot. Michael has worked with various companies of different shapes and sizes and helped mold their marketing plans, traffic acquisition methods, and competitive online strategies.

Our topics include:

Why is making customers more successful the key to business growth?

How Hubspot came to be and the rest of its origin story.

Recommendations and guiding principles for successful scaling and team growth.

For this week’s episode, we’re joined by Rocky Romanella, the founder of 3SIXTY Management Services LLC. He has more than 40 years of executive level experience. His areas of expertise include development and implementation of high-level strategies, merger and acquisition integration, and operations management, to name a few. This is Rocky’s second time on the show. He was also our guest in episode 79, which you can check out here.

Our topics include:

What is balanced leadership and how can it help you?

Why is the “telling-people-what-they-want-to-hear” approach destructive to your work and the company?

Our guest for this week is Dr. Danielle Wood, an engineer, a policy researcher and the leader of the Space Enabled Research Group. Danielle’s areas of expertise include aerospace engineering, systems engineering, technology policy, development and satellite-based earth observation.

Our topics include:

What is Space Enabled, and how does it help advance justice in Earth’s complex systems?

What can you do to support Sustainable Development Goals?

The six disciplines that help Space Enabled drive change.

How to manage and lead a group of diverse professionals?

What are some of the challenges Danielle and the rest of her team face in their work?

Our guest for this week is Joan Wilmer, an HR Executive and a Community Advocate. She is also a successful entrepreneur and she currently co-owns multiple franchises located in Maryland and West Virginia. Over the past two decades, she’s built an impressive rapport at organizations including The Federal Reserve Board, CBRE, Caesars Entertainment, American Red Cross, Toyota and Citigroup, holding the titles of Senior HR Business Partner via The Federal Reserve Board; Greater Southeastern HR Leader via CBRE; Vice President of HR via Caesars Entertainment; HR Director via American Red Cross; CSC Eastern Region HR Leader via Toyota and both Assistant Vice President and Vice President (and other promotional roles) of HR via Citigroup.

Our topics include:

What key factors played a role in Joan’s rapid ascent in the corporate world?

The basic conditions for establishing a quality mentorship process.

Joan’s personal experiences with mentorship.

The struggles that women of color are facing daily in the business world, and how to overcome them.